Places to find READING/INTEREST LEVELS of books (for the 521 field)
- The publisher site often gives this information, e.g. http://penguin.com
- The database Children's Literature Comprehensive Database (available through JCKL)
- The Lexile site, http://lexile.com
- Scholastic's Book Wizard, http://www.scholastic.com/bookwizard/ -- by choosing "Guided Reading" books can be identified according to the Fountas & Pinnell scale.
- Mackin Educational Resources -create an account (it's free!) and reading information for Accelerated Reader, Reading Counts, Lexile and Fountas & Pinnel will be given for most titles.
- Microsoft Word will display information about the reading level of the document according to Flesch Reading Ease and Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level.
- Renaissance Learning (Accelerated Reader) has an AR BookFinder that tells the interest level, book level (using the ATOS readability formula) and the Accelerated Reader Points, http://www.arbookfind.com/
- ATOS was developed by Renaissance Learning: determines the reading difficulty of a book by calculating the semantic difficulty, syntactic difficulty, and book length.
- ATOS stands for Advantage/TASA OpenStandard
- Renaissance Learning also has an area where you can determine the ATOS Level for a book by typing in the text, http://www.renlearn.com/atos/default.aspx
- Use this if you can't find the specific book by entering some text from the book you are cataloging.
- The app Level It Books (iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch) - scan a book's ISBN to "view the Lexile, Guide Reading, Grade Level Equivalent, and/or DRA levels for the book." http://levelitbooks.com